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overkill

Vox populi An excess of anything
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Overkill is an achievement that blends heart-stopping thrills with deep, believable characters in a stark New Zealand setting.
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Poor paleontological visibility would be inevitable." (8) Two more pieces of negative evidence that Martin uses to claim sudden overkill are "the absence of cave paintings of extinct animals in the New World and the lack of ivory carvings such as those found in the mammoth hunter camps of the Don Basin.
Quantitative analysis of megafaunal extinctions and the tenacity of pleistocene overkill: archeology and the world historian
If a game performs well, the Swedish company gets additional sales-royalties after the pre-finance amount has been covered for the publisher.Country: SwedenSector: Computer SoftwareTarget: SLG Everscreen AB, Overkill SoftwareBuyer: Starbreeze ABType: Corporate acquisitionStatus: Agreed
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Anderson said playing too many Twenty20 matches could result in an overkill for supporters if organisers try to adjust the games into the county season.
Too many T20 matches will result in 'overkill': Anderson
There was an overkill of sorts with all the girls looking like clones of each other in studded chiffons.
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"But with Twenty20 they've got to find a way of not overkilling it - and overkill to me is day on, day off, day on, day off.
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"Overkill" is the term Borenstein (Russian / Slavic studies, New York U.) uses to describe the sensationally violent and abnormally graphic sexual nature of entertainment and mass culture in late- and post-Soviet Russia.
Overkill; sex and violence in contemporary Russian popular culture
Several banking laws coming out of the savings and loan scandals of the late 1980s were savaged by the banking community as overkill; at least one, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act (FDICIA), was commonly sneered at as "the lawyers' full employment act."
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Step 6 may seem like overkill, but this step helps minimize the risk of immediately recontaminating hands.
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